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All Purpose Voltage Heroes

About Me

UPDATE 04/06/09: We're still alive and seem to be more active lately.
UPDATE 11/11/08: We alive!
Back in 2001, Kevin Cherney and brothers Dan and Zack Poole picked up every forgotten pawn shop keyboard they could get their hands on, and became the All Purpose Voltage Heroes. Dan hopped on the mic and pinned down a sampler, Kevin and Zack grabbed the keyboards, and drummer Connor Mayer was brought in to fill out the rhythm. There were no guitars and no turning back.
The music is all their own. It's pop tinged, rock styled, rap touched, dance minded, and punk sprited. It has made constant appearances on campus radio across Canada, peaking at a number far to small to count on the Earshot-Online charts in 2004.
Their first album, Decorate Your Monster Shirt, was made with fifty dollars and Dan's limited recording knowledge. It's raw and confrontational, yet was surprisingly embraced by the people. There's another one, The End Of Daniel Johnathan Poole, and it's a little different. It's a damaged pop album, a tiny epic. It's a record of the APVH finding their sound. The new EP is called "Already Haunted". It's the band's strongest and most shortest release to date. There's five songs, with the fifth being a cover of the music from classic Nintendo game "Mike Tyson's Punch Out".
The live shows, with costumes, stage props, theatrics and the like, are an integral part of the APVH experience. It's all energy, all the time. Legend says they once performed in pink pants, rocked shirtless with lighting bolts scrawled across their skinny chests, turned the stage into a breakfast nook, beat up fake versions of themselves, transformed a record store into a tropical island in the dead of winter, and lead the crowd to victory as a soccer team.
On the strength of these live shows, All Purpose Voltage Heroes have been invited to share the stage with bands like Metric, The Unicorns, The Hidden Cameras, Feist, Little Wings, P:ano, Aids Wolf, The Doers, Run Chico Run, Name Drop, Name Drop, and Name Drop. In January of 2005 they taped two songs for CBC's "ZeD" program, which if they had the ability to travel back in time and make it happen, should be aired at the start of the 2005-2006 season. They do not have this ability.
The Already Haunted EP is available on CD from Rectangle Records (distributed by Maple Nationwide / Universal), and on screenprinted 12" vinyl from Reluctant Recordings. (Distributed by Scratch)
To purchase Already Haunted on CD from Rectangle Records, click this button:Photos of the CD and Vinyl:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/02/2005
Band Website: http://www.allpurposevoltageheroes.com
Band Members: Daniel Johnathan Poole - President Of Singing

Kevin Daniel Cherney - Lead Keyboard

Zachary Michael Poole - Rival Lead Keyboard

Now And Forever:
Connor Joseph Mayer - Drum-ming-dynasty

For A Time:
Garrett Heath Kruger - Beatkeeping, Beekeeping, Keybeeping
Influences: That stupid shirt you're wearing. Ick!
Sounds Like: The Unicorns, Les Savy Fav, Six Finger Satellite, An Albatross
Record Label: Rectangle Records, Reluctant Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HEY GUYS IM BLOGGIN’

so here's the scoopwe have a new website (allpurposevoltageheroes.com) that is really really fun and is going to be getting even more fun as soon as we add stuff to it.we're going to be putting up a n...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:47:00 GMT

APVH STOLEN MERCH

Hey guys, last night after our show at the Astoria on East Hastings a box of our merch got stolen. It's a big cardboard box that contained about 40 t-shirts, 15-20 copies of already haunted on vinyl (...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:49:00 GMT

WE ARE NOT PLAYING WITH ON OCT 5 WITH TAN!

Hey everyone, we are no longer on the bill for the Thunderbirds show, I just want to clear that up for everyone.
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:04:00 GMT

2006

Hey. So Zack moved to Vancouver and lives in harmony over there with our drummer, Connor. Dan and Kevin still live in Edmonton. We're a band divided. So we can't play any shows or anything like that. ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:02:00 GMT

Member departure

I guess this should also be the time to mention that these dates we've got lined up are the very last ones with this lineup. Our drummer Connor will be leaving in the beginning of August to continue h...
Posted by on Thu, 19 May 2005 10:46:00 GMT

Label Partnership

We are pleased to announce our label partnership with Rectangle Records / Indiestructable. We think they're going to do great things for us. Rectangle will be doing a national release of our brand new...
Posted by on Mon, 16 May 2005 09:23:00 GMT

BLONDE REDHEAD

Well, we've been selected to open for everyone's favourite band, Touch & Go / 4AD recording artists Blonde Redhead. June 16 at New City. We are so excited. Keep checking back for upcoming news abou...
Posted by on Fri, 13 May 2005 16:58:00 GMT

Summer

Well, here we are. We find Myspace functioning as our main website while our other one gets fixed and switches servers. We put the finishing touches on the upcoming 5 song EP we're releasing, that ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 May 2005 06:49:00 GMT

So

Someone from the future came through a portal and told us that in the year 2080, our music will open up a portal that will enable him to travel back in time seventy five years. After that we tried to ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:03:00 GMT

APVH Vs Wolfnote

What a fun weekend of shows. We did Calgary on Thursday with ToTheTeeth/ToTheHilt, and then we got together some of our favourite bands at Queen Alex Hall in Edmonton for a jam packed dance party. No ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:29:00 GMT